The story
The company was established in 1990 with the former Jackson/Charvel Japan design division. The Charvel designers created the CDS Series, CDS II Series, and Questar Series, while the Jackson designed contributed with the Doug Aldrich, Soloist Special, Dinky AXE and Falcon models. Caparison was owned by Kyowa Shokai Ltd, a company that made contracts with factories to produce guitars for them (like Hoshino Gakki).
In May 2011, Shokai was declared bankrupt; however, Caparison resumed production in September 2011 under the ownership of the Caparison Guitar Company Ltd., a company in Cardiff, United Kingdom. The company retained Itaru Kanno (菅野到) as lead designer and the instruments are still manufactured with Iida Corporation in Nagoya, Japan.
From Wikipedia’s article on Caparison Guitars, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4